Approaches to Teacher Education Program

Faculty Biographies

Dr. Mary Ann Christison

President of TESOL and professor of ESL and Director of the International Center at Snow College in Utah. She has an M.A. in communication and TESL and a Ph.D. in English/Linguistics.

She is the author of such popular ESL/EFL titles as Becoming a Language Teacher, A Handbook for Language Program Administrators, Community Spirit, Look Who's Talking, Purple Cows and Potato Chips, and Drawing Out.

She has also published numerous articles on TESL/TEFL methodology and research in such journals as the TESOL Quarterly, the TESOL Journal, the English Teaching Forum, the Journal of Intensive English Studies, the CATESOL Journal and TESL Talk.

Dr. Joy Reid

Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Wyoming, where she coordinates the ESL support program and teaches composition and linguistics, and trains ESL and native-English speaker teachers.

She has written several ESL composition textbooks (The Process of Composition, The Process of Paragraph Writing, Basic Writing) as well as a teacher-reference book, Teaching ESL Writing. Her research and publications include articles on discourse analysis, the change process, the reading-writing connection, and student and teacher learning styles.

She is presently involved in co-authoring a teacher reference text with Patricia Byrd (Georgia State University), Grammar in the Writing Classroom, and she is editing a second anthology on student learning styles. She has also been active in the International TESOL association, serving as its President last year.

Dr. Theodore Rodgers

Has taught at the University of Hawaii since 1968 and has been Professor of Psycholinguistics since 1976. In Hawaii, he has served on the faculties of Education, English, English as a Second Language, Information Sciences and Psychology. For fifteen years he directed the Hawaii English Program, the largest venture in language education curriculum development as yet undertaken in the U.S.

He has authored some sixty books and articles and is co-author (with Jack Richards) of the most popular text on language teaching methodology, Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, published by Cambridge University Press. Professor Rodgers has had long-term consultances and/or visiting professorships in Malaysia, England, China, Japan, Hungary and Laos. As Senior Fulbright Fellow he is currently directing the MATEFL Program at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.

Dr. Fredricka L. Stoller

Associate Professor of English at Northern Arizona University where she teaches in the MA-TESL and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics programs. She is also Director of the Program in Intensive English (PIE) at the same institution where she is in charge of all aspects of the program including curriculum development, syllabus design, materials development, and teacher training and supervision.

Of particular interest are curricular issues related to the integration of content, language, and strategies instruction in EAP settings. She is currently serving on TESOL's Professional Development Committee. She has trained EFL teachers and language program administrators in the Czech Republic, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Panama, and Poland, Slovakia.